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Kinneal Dickens won the pole vault (7-6), triple jump (33-0.5) and 100 hurdles (17.3) as Pentucket opened its season with an 86-59 win over Newburyport. Emily Rubio won the high jump with a stellar jump of 5-4 and took the long jump (16-5.25)

NEWBURYPORT — When Newburyport quarterback Finn Sullivan saw his senior wide receiver Trevor Ward making a run to the end zone early in the fourth quarter, he didn’t need to think twice.

Will Roberts (300) and Stratton Seymour (600) won individual events and were on the decisive 4x400 relay as Pentucket's boys edged Newburyport 49-37 in "indoor" track.

Pentucket's girls gained redemption for its lone regular season loss, defeating Newburyport 34-23 in the finals of the CAL Kinney tournament. Mackenzie Currie led the Sachems (11-1) with 11 points and Arielle Cleveland added 10.

North Andover's Sydney Schwalm finished first in the North Shore League races for the second straight week and teammate Jane Freund was second as the Knights won twice to improve to 4-0.

The Division 4 record in the 4x200 relay, set by a team from Hopkinton in 1999 (1:46.58), finally fell on Saturday when Pentucket's Sabrina Campbell, Emily Rubio, Sage Smith and Syeira Campbell raced to first in a meet record time of 1:46.18. The quartet helped the Sachems take third overall as a team with 40 points, trailing just Nauset (51) and Melrose (49). Elsewhere for Pentucket, Madi Krohto broke her own school record and finished second in the high jump (5-6) — followed closely by Rubio in fourth (5-4) — and Rubio also added a second in the long jump (17-2).

Senior Angelina Yacubacci tossed in 16 points and freshman Abby Dube pumped in a career-high 12 for Pentucket, which clinched its sixth straight CAL Large title.

Emily Rubio was named Athlete of the Meet as she led Pentucket to a second-place at the CAL Meet. Rubio won the long jump and took a third in the high jump. She teamed with Sabrina Campbell, Sage Smith and Syeira Campbell to win the 4x200 in a meet record 1:47.65. Other Sachem winners were Madi Krohto in the high jump and Syeira Campbell in the 300.

Junior MacKenzie Currie scored a career-high 18 points to lead the Pentucket girls over Newburyport 38-30. The Sachems (10-1) are missing Arielle Cleveland, who is out with an ankle injury, and Megan Reading, who is lost for the season with a knee injury.

NEWBURYPORT — Newburyport put on the pressure Saturday afternoon, but Tyler Correnti was up to the challenge.

The Pentucket sophomore made several spectacular saves among his six stops and Matt Tineo scored on a beautiful 30-footer in the second half as the Sachems prevailed in the annual ALS Cup game, 1-0.